General

Department orientation for the class of 2023 in M.Tech, MSc, and PhD courses was conducted by IEOR Students Association (IEORSA) on 28 July 2023 in room LC101. This event marked the beginning of the academic journey for the new entrants where IEOR faculties shared the welcome message and tips to excel in the academic environment. A few rounds of general questions about the student's hobbies, talents and interests made everyone speak and interact followed by a brief description of various clubs and societies in the institute.

Name of Research Scholar: Prashant Trivedi

Thesis Title: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making

Supervisors: Prof. N. Hemachandra and Prof. J. Venkateswaran

Date and Day:  Thursday, July 27, 2023

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room

Board of Examiners:

1) Prof. Salabh Bhatnagar, IISc, Bangalore (External Examiner)

2) Prof. P. Balamurugan, IE&OR, IIT Bombay (Internal Examiner)

Arnab Bhabak joined IEOR as a post-doctoral fellow and will work with Prof. K.S. Mallikarjuna Rao. He has done his Ph.D. from IIT Guwahati based on the thesis titled "Stochastic Control Problems with Probability and Risk-sensitive Criteria". His primary research interest lies in solving control problems as well as game problems, in the discrete and continuous time setup. He is also interested in continuous-time Markov and semi-Markov Zero-sum games under probability criterion.

Dhawal Thakkar, Ph.D. student of IEOR, presented his work (under the supervision of Prof P. Balamurugan) on "Customer Feedback driven Flight Sequence Scheduling with Flight Leg Importance Assignment" at the 26th International Conference on Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) 2023 held at Kobe, Japan from 1-4th July 2023. His work dived deeper into minimising propagated delays for high-importance flight legs based on customer reviews and the busyness of the airport operations.

Sachin Bodke, a research scholar from Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), recently visited the five Government Dialysis Centers in Madhya Pradesh. He visited the centers located in Datia, Dabra, Morena, Bhind, and Gwalior from June 15th to June 17th, 2023. The purpose of the visit was to gain insights into the challenges faced by these centers and understand the demands and requests of the patients they serve.

Sachin Bodke, a Research Fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, had the honor of presenting his work titled "A Multi-Period Location-Allocation Model for Healthcare Facility Planning Under Accessibility Restrictions" at the 16th International Symposium on Locational Decisions (ISOLDE XVI) in Germany. The symposium took place at Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern and Maison Messmer Hotel in Baden-Baden from June 25th to June 30th, 2023. Bodke was the sole representative from India among 78 speakers from 18 countries across three continents.

IEOR research scholars Shiksha Singhal, Tushar, Madhu, Vartika, Khushboo, Gurkirat, and Anand attended the "Data Science: Probabilistic and Optimization Methods workshop", organized at ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore from 3-7 July 2023. This workshop majorly focused on the state-of-the-art fast processing tools for the enormous data that is being generated, sometimes at a high speed.

Rishav Deval, a Senior Research Fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented "Emission-based Production and Inventory Control System: A stability analysis for system cost and service level", a paper co-authored with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran at the 11th EUROSIM CONGRESS 2023 held at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherland organized triennially by the Dutch Benulex Simulation Society (DBSS) from July 3 to July 5, themed Simulation for Sustainable Future, observed presenters from around 35+ countries with 100+ posters and presentations.

As a part of Phase I, MECS SC2 project, IITB team visited the BRLPS head office in Patna from 13th June to 15th June 2023. The workshop was conducted to finalize the itemized cashflows, manpower (salary and roles), awareness activities, timeline, target location, target market, and other supply chain requirements for the project. 
We also briefly introduced our work to the CEO of Jeevika (BRLPS).
The workshop was conducted by Prof. Jayendran V., Deepak, Sanket, Purva, and the JWIRES team(Amit, Gaurav, Jitendra, Pushpendra). 

Scholar:  Devanand

Title: Some Studies on Similarity-based Methods for Linear Optimization and Master Production Schedule

Supervisors: Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan and Prof. N. Hemachandra

Date and Day Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Venue: IEOR Conference Room and Online